Steem vs Teem - What's the difference?
steem | teem |
(obsolete) To value, esteem.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
*:His life he steemed dearer than his friend […]. To be stocked to overflowing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be prolific; to abound.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To empty.
* 1913 ,
*:“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.
*:“Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”
To pour (especially with rain)
To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
As verbs the difference between steem and teem
is that steem is to value, esteem while teem is to be stocked to overflowing.As a noun steem
is a gleam of light; a flame.steem
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Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* stemEtymology 2
Aphetic form of esteem.Verb
(en verb)teem
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence also team.Verb
(en verb)- his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.
